Somewhere in the climax of Revelation Space (book by Alistair Reynolds), he describes the “suit” taking the character from the orbiting ship to the surface as “more of a spaceship with room for precisely one occupant”
It took me way too long to parse this sentence.
Me too. But I’m drunk. What’s your excuse?
There’s a fuzzy line between clothes and vehicles that spacesuits sit right in the middle of
There’s a fuzzy line between clothes and vehicles that sit right in the middle of
I think Adam Savage has actually gone into this a bit on his YouTube channel, dude really likes space suits and have a lot of videos about them so I’m not even going to try to find which specific video it was
“I’m sorry, I can’t hear you, son! I’m wearing a jacuzzi suit.”
I would say, a space suit (Being a suit to protect a human agianst space), is clothing like, equipment, such the same as a suit of armour or CRBN suit. Where an EVA suit (Being a vehicle allowing mobilty in low/no gravity areas), is a vehicle like, mech suit, such the same as an exoskeleton.
Yes we generally only use EVA suits in space
Do the Apollo era EVA suits count as vehicles, or do you have to have an MMU like what Bruce McCandless wore?
The apollo era space suits (A7-L) where generally produced in an “EVA” configuration. It had protective, cooling and comfort layers but no mobilty enhancement. I would personally think they count more as a protective suit than a veichle, as compared to the MMU with mobility enhancing features.
I personally consider the A7-L, not a proper EVA unit, it does not allow activity in space outside of a veichle or terrestrial body. An MMU veichle can be used to perform a wide range of activities outside the ISS wereas an IL-7, could not.
ofc it’s all personal speculation and arguments can be made all around, thats just my take on it.
